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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2007, 3:11 PM CST for Union Parish, Louisiana; Union County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Union County, AR, Union Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Junction City, AR | ROOF DAMAGE TO PHARMACY. REPORTED BY TV MEDIA. |
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | TORNADO 1 | 5 N Spearsville, LA | ROOFS DAMAGED NEAR TAYLORTOWN AND LOCKHART. PART OF THE DAMAGE TRACK THAT WAS RATED AN EF1. |
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | TORNADO | 5 N Spearsville, LA | A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF THE TAYLORTOWN COMMUNITY AND TRACKED 1 MILE NORTHEAST ACROSS MIKE TAYLOR AND CHARLES ROADS JUST WEST OF THE LOCKHART COMMUNITY. NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN OVER OR HAD THEIR TOPS SHEARED OFF. SEVERAL ROOFS WERE DAMAGED |
| Feb 24, 3:20 PM CST | TORNADO | 7 N Spearsville, AR | THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE UNION PARISH TORNADO. THIS TORNADO CROSSED STATELINE ROAD AND HIGHWAY 7...AND EVENTUALLY OVER SEWELL ROAD BEFORE MOVING OVER A HEAVILY WOODED AREAS. NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN PARTICULARLY OVER STATELINE ROAD...WITH A DAMAGE W |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 661 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSHV 242111 TORSHV ARC139-LAC111-242200- /O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0009.070224T2111Z-070224T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 311 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... UNION PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 311 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STRONG...OR NEAR JUNCTION CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRONG BY 335 PM CST WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... UNION PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 400 PM CST. LAT...LON 3302 9272 3281 9271 3316 9212 3329 9246 $$ 15
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KSHV 242142 SVSSHV SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 338 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ARC139-LAC111-242200- /O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070224T2200Z/ UNION AR-UNION LA- 338 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR UNION COUNTY ARKANSAS AND UNION PARISH LOUISIANA... AT 338 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 1 MILE NORTH OF STRONG...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTTIG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY BY 345 PM. IN ADDITION...QUARTER SIZED HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. AN ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAK ROTATION WAS INDICATED NEAR LILLIE IN NORTHWEST UNION PARISH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. A TORNADO MAY FORM WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN UNION PARISH NEAR THE BEECH GROVE AND TAYLORTOWN COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THESE POTENTIAL TORNADOES. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. LAT...LON 3302 9272 3281 9271 3316 9212 3329 9246 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 9:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 61 min |
| Feb 24, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 20 min |
| Feb 24, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 1:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Red River, Webster | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 56 min |
| Feb 24, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 51 min |
| Feb 24, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 5:34 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 12 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 10:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 11:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Nevada | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 33 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.